"It broke him down when they took him away from his family and all his friends," said Frank Walker, an older fighter from Turpin's Philadelphia gym. "They took him out of reality and put him in a reality show. They took a real person and made him into a character."

from In Reality, A Tragedy for Boxer

Death of course is horrible, particularly when it is suicide. It adds insult to injury if you just happened to be on a soon to debut reality show. but...

If you sign up for a tv show, even if it has "reality" in it, do not expect TV to do anything but make you into a character. No matter how "real" you are, you become TV. No matter what they do TV is not real. You want to prove it, just get a video camera and put it into anyone's face. See what happens.